Xi Mingze

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In this Chinese name, the family name is Xi.
Xi Mingze
习明泽
Born (1992-06-25) 25 June 1992 (age 29)
Fuzhou, China
NationalityChinese
EducationHarvard University (BA, Psychology)
Parent(s)

Xi Mingze (simplified Chinese: 习明泽; traditional Chinese: 習明澤; pinyin: Xí Míngzé; [ɕǐ mǐŋ.tsɤ̌]; born 25 June 1992), nicknamed Xiao Muzi (小木子; 'Little Wood'),[1] is the only child of Chinese paramount leader and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping[2] and operatic-style traditional singer Peng Liyuan.[3]

Life[]

As the only child of China's top leader, Xi keeps a low profile and not much of her personal information has been revealed to the public. From 2006 to 2008, she studied French at her high school, Hangzhou Foreign Language School.[1] Xi enrolled at Harvard University, as a freshman in 2010, after a year of undergraduate study at Zhejiang University.[4] She enrolled under a pseudonym,[5][6] and maintained a low profile.[7] She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2014 majoring in psychology and has since returned to China. As of 2015, she is living in Beijing.[8]

Following the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, Xi volunteered as a disaster relief worker for one week in Hanwang, Mianzhu.[1][9][10] In 2013, she made her first public appearance with her parents at the Liangjiahe village in Yan'an, Shaanxi province, where they offered Lunar New Year greetings to the locals.[11] She has been described as interested in reading and fashion.[1][9]

Information leak[]

In 2019, a forum administrator and skilled coder named Niu Tengyu (牛騰宇), along with 23 youth, some under the age of 18 associated with the forum, were arrested in China for allegedly leaking pictures of Xi Mingze's ID card on a website called esu.wiki.[12] Human rights group China Change criticized the alleged use of torture and sleep deprivation in order to extract confessions from the suspects.[13]

On 30 December 2020, the Maonan District People's Court in Maoming, Guangdong province, sentenced Niu to 14 years in prison and a 130,000 RMB fine for "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble", "infringing on citizens personal information" and "incitement of subversion of state power" The 23 others were given lesser sentences.[12]

References[]

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  4. ^ FlorCruz, Jaime A. (2 February 2012). "Who is Xi: China's next leader". CNN. Archived from the original on 5 August 2019. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  5. ^ Liu, Melinda (18 January 2011). "Can't we just be friends?". Newsweek. Archived from the original on 18 January 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
  6. ^ Andrew Jacobs and Dan Levin, Son's Parties and Privilege Aggravate Fall of Elite Chinese Family Archived 13 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine, New York Times, 16 April 2012.
  7. ^ WONG, EDWARD (26 April 2012). "In China, a Fall From Grace May Aid a Rise to Power". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 4 May 2019. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  8. ^ Osnos, Evan (6 April 2015). "Born Red: How Xi Jinping, an unremarkable provincial administrator, became China's most authoritarian leader since Mao". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 10 July 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b CHOU, JENNIFER (14 July 2008). "China's Star Princelings". The Weekly Standard. Archived from the original on 17 September 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  10. ^ Page, Jeremy (13 February 2012). "Meet China's Folk Star First Lady-in-Waiting". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 11 May 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  11. ^ "China: Xi Jinping's Harvard-educated daughter Xi Mingze makes first public appearance - Firstpost". www.firstpost.com. First Post. 14 February 2015. Archived from the original on 13 March 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  12. ^ Jump up to: a b Wu, Yitong; Chingman. "Court in China's Guangdong Jails 24 Over Posts on Xi Jinping's Family". www.rfa.org. Radio Free Asia. Archived from the original on 11 April 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  13. ^ "In China, 24 Members of a Subculture Website Sentenced, the Main 'Culprit' Gets 14 Years in Prison". China Change. 4 February 2021. Archived from the original on 21 February 2021. Retrieved 15 February 2021.

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